This past Sunday, a 507-pound piece of Pacific bluefin tuna sold at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market. Last year’s tuna broke records and sold for $1.76 million. This year, prices plummeted to $70,000. As far as why the price tanked, Amanda Nickson, director for global tuna conservation for The Pew Charitable Trusts, says that there hasn't been a finite answer.“We’re not quite sure why the price dropped,” Nickson says. “There’s been quite a bit of speculation, but thus far nothing to clearly indicate why."Nickson wants the public to know more about the predicament of the Pacific bluefin population than the price tag of it being sold in Tokyo."The real issue, however, is that there has been little to no public attention given to the plight of Pacific bluefin and the population is in dire straits," she says.Pew ...Image may be NSFW.
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